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Shafiqa Begum was among the crowd chasing a minivan distributing food packets among starving Rohingyas near Tyingkhali Rohingya camp. Holding her eight-day-old daughter tightly to her chest, she tried her best to push through the thick throng. But before she could go near it, the van started to move back ...

A firefighter battles the Ponderosa Fire east of Oroville, California, US. An ear of wheat is seen during sunset in a field outside the Siberian village of Legostaevo, in Krasnoyarsk region, Russia. Veteran alpinist Oscar Cadiach (C) along with members of his team as they hoist the Pakistani flag on ...

Mumbai was under water on Wednesday following exceptionally heavy rainfall which overwhelmed the city’s drainage infrastructure. Mumbai is India’s most populous city, and very few of its 18.4 million inhabitants were unaffected by the downpours. In the 24 hours to 12:00 GMT on Wednesday, the city recorded a total of ...

Melanie Starnauld and her 19-year-old son Mathew, who lost their home to Hurricane Harvey, await to be evacuated from Rockport, Texas. Residents at La Vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson Texas sit in flood waters as they wait to be rescued A vehicle sits half submerged in flood waters in ...